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Bolesław Prus and the Jews / Agnieszka Friedrich.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Jews of PolandPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781644695739
  • 9781644695746
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.8/536 23
LOC classification:
  • PG7158.G62 F7513 2021
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- Introduction -- 1. Prus’s Predecessors and Contemporaries on the Jewish Question -- 2. Prus’s Social Reflections -- 3. Prus on the Traditional Aspects of the Jewish Question -- 4. Prus on the Modern Aspects of the Jewish Question -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Bolesław Prus and the Jews shows the complexity of the so-called “Jewish question” in nineteenth-century Congress Poland and especially its significance in Prus’ social concept reflected in his extensive body of journalistic work, fiction, and treatises. The book traces Prus’ evolving worldview toward Jews, from his support of the Assimilation Program in his early years to his eventual support of Zionism. These contrasting ideas show us the complexity of the discourse on Jewish issues from the individual perspective of a significant writer of the time, as well as the dynamics of the Jewish modernization process in a “non-existent” partitioned Poland. The portrait of Prus that emerges is surprisingly ambivalent.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- Introduction -- 1. Prus’s Predecessors and Contemporaries on the Jewish Question -- 2. Prus’s Social Reflections -- 3. Prus on the Traditional Aspects of the Jewish Question -- 4. Prus on the Modern Aspects of the Jewish Question -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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Bolesław Prus and the Jews shows the complexity of the so-called “Jewish question” in nineteenth-century Congress Poland and especially its significance in Prus’ social concept reflected in his extensive body of journalistic work, fiction, and treatises. The book traces Prus’ evolving worldview toward Jews, from his support of the Assimilation Program in his early years to his eventual support of Zionism. These contrasting ideas show us the complexity of the discourse on Jewish issues from the individual perspective of a significant writer of the time, as well as the dynamics of the Jewish modernization process in a “non-existent” partitioned Poland. The portrait of Prus that emerges is surprisingly ambivalent.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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